Has anyone fitted one of these? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Vehi...a=1&pg=2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
My outfit looked at importing some of these things, we had a few different types which we tried on different cars/bikes/vans and they all had a few of things in common 1) They were VERY data intensive and gobbled up data on the SIM extremely quickly 2) They were erratic - worked sometimes and not others 3) They were a real pig to set up..instructions generally only came in Chinese and the apps were flakey at best Needless to say, we decided not to import any. You kind of get what you pay for - cheap is as cheap does
IME you get what you pay for. Certainly at one time, BikeTrac were the only company offering 24 hour, live monitoring and assistance with recovery so hence the cost. Not sure if the forum search function will find it but there was another brand that was £50 ish that was getting good reviews discussed a year or so ago. Andy
It's so cheap I've bought it to play with, if it works it will be a bonus. The Ebay video says 30 to 50 mb a month. A Lebara SIM with 500mb a month is £3.95 The bike will be kept in a locked garage which is behind a locked steel gate so this just another layer of security. Dan
These don’t use a load of data. A GiffGaff Sim loaded with £10 of credit will last ages. If you start using SMS to get the data then that will cost you 10p a time and gobble up your credit. Using the App and the data connection is the cheapest way to run them. The amount of data used costs about 18p per month. Had one fitted on my 1198S. Only 3 wires to connect and battery backup.
I used GiffGaff SIM in my eBay tracker (it was the same as the one previously sold by DataTool but only £50). There was a portal on offer from the UK company I bought it from (ReWire Security), 12 mths was included, that showed location and three months of history. After year one you could pay, ISTR, £15 a year or £30 for life (just checked their prices and they've jacked up the prices significantly). Tracker still going strong on the bike although I sold it almost a couple of years ago. I got a low battery alert the other day... guess the new owner didn't change that setting. You can run these without a portal but it's less convenient and you use credit on the SIM each time you send a command to the tracker to find it's position or it contacts you to say that the bike has been moved. You need to sent it a few texts to set it up, it replies to confirm, but once done you don't need to repeat these unless you want to change something. Chose the GiffGaff SIM as the one they offered didn't do Europe, only the UK. It sipped data, less than £10 per annum and I did around 9,000 miles each year. Now running a biketrac as that was an insurance requirement.
With the greatest respect. The one you have may not use data. I oversaw the testing of 10 different units from different manufacturers, all Chinese and ALL the ones we tested used huge amounts of data. a £10 data sim would not last a month in any of the units. The Apps that allowed access to read location reports were horrendous to set up and as already said, any instructions were in Chinese so were difficult to use. If any of you wanna give 'em a go - then go for it. These things are cheap and cheerful so you will not lose fortunes. I honestly hope you have better luck than we did. I will be surprised if many of you do though WHY would you trust a £10-15K bike to a 12 quid device though ?
I'm a plus one for the Monimoto very easy to set up and use. https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/452765
